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Friday, September 21, 2012
CIBPA Ottawa Scholarship Awards Program (COSAP) was incorporated by CIBPA Ottawa to promote and assist access to post-secondary studies for members of the Italian-Canadian community residing in Ontario according to their academic merit and community involvement. In order to achieve these ends, COSAP will offer financial assistance in the form of... More
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
EMC news - Last September Vanessa Burn of Stittsville enrolled in a Swahili language class at Carleton University where she is completing her second year in the social work program. She was tired of taking the usual English or history class and wanted to experience something different. Little did she know then where it... More
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
For anyone who's climbed onboard the yoga train, the words asana (आसन), shavasana (शवासन) and pranayama (प्राणायाम) have become part of everyday language. But where do these words come from, how are they written in their original form, and how does the grammar of the language surrounding them really work? This... More
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Congratulations to Spanish instructor Margarita Alfonso who was recognized this semester with a CUSA Teaching Excellence Award. ... More
Monday, April 2, 2012
Congratulations to Italian instructor Antonino Mazza on the upcoming publication of Immigrant Songs, his edited collection of poems, letters and fiction by seminal Italo-Canadian writer Saro D'Agostino. Immigrant Songs: The poems, fiction and letters of Saro D’AgostinoCollected, edited and with an introduction by Antonino... More
Thursday, March 15, 2012
SLaLS welcomes Celia Posner as a tenure-track (continuing) Instructor of American Sign Language. Celia "joins" us at a very exciting time in the American Sign Language program, with our new Certificate program beginning next year. Indeed the recent dramatic success of the program is certainly due in part to her hard work and dedication... More
Each year the Japan Foundation, under the auspices of the Japanese Embassy, sponsors a Canada-wide speech competition for students studying Japanese at Canadian institutions and the 2011 provincial round of competition just wrapped up in Ottawa with Carleton students placing highly in all three categories: 1st in the Advanced category and 2nd in... More
Congratulations to Dr. Marie-Odile Junker on being named the 2011 Davidson Dunton Research Lecturer. As part of this honour, Marie-Odile will deliver a public lecture, "Giving voice to Aboriginal languages: putting information technologies to work for people," on Wednesday, April 4 at 4 p.m. in the Senate Chamber. The lecture will be followed... More
Friday, February 17, 2012
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Monday, January 30, 2012
Visit the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs website to read "Understanding the Inuk Way," a profile on SLaLS Inuktitut instructor Dr. Janet McGrath and an overview of her research. Read... More
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
November 14-18 is International Education Week. This year's theme is “Canada Engages with the World: Realizing Our Potential through International Education.” Be sure to check out the many events planned for throughout the week by the International Student Services Office...and take your language skills out into the... More
Friday, September 23, 2011
Janet McGrath and her Inuktitut class were recently featured in an APTN National News story. Click here to watch. http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2011/09/22/carleton-university-offers-indigenous-languages/[Link removed 29 April,... More
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